Klaus-Dieter Wintermann

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Klaus-Dieter Wintermann (born May 23, 1953 in Rohrborn ; † January 3, 2001 ) was a German art historian and museum director.

Life

Klaus-Dieter Wintermann grew up in the town of Sömmerda, where he was born in 1953 in what is now Rohrborn. After graduating from the Extended Oberschule, he studied philosophy at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . At the Faculty of Philosophy and History there, Klaus-Dieter Wintermann received his doctorate in 1988 with the dissertation Function and Effects of Fine Art in Socialism, Philosophical Considerations on Art Education using the example of the "Art Exhibition of the GDR" .

After practical work in the housing combine in Erfurt , he went to Dresden in 1980 , where he became a research assistant at the District Council, Culture Department. He was responsible for art exhibitions in the GDR. In 1984 he worked out the exhibition catalogs for Günter Rössler, Curt Querner, Klaus Schwabe and Lothar Sell.

On September 1, 1988, he took over the management of Weesenstein Castle in the Eastern Ore Mountains , for the renovation and marketing of which he was instrumental in the twelve years of his activity. He has also been director of the State Palaces and Gardens of Dresden since 1999. In 2001 he died after a serious illness.

Fonts (selection)

A complete bibliography of his publications can be found in: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 47, No. 1, 2001, p. 62. Among his few monographs is the title True Stories about King Johann , Taucha, Tauchaer Verlag, 1994 , written together with Christine Klecker .

literature

  • Christine Klecker: In memoriam Klaus-Dieter Wintermann . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 47, No. 1, 2001, pp. 61–62.
  • Christine Klecker: In memoriam Klaus-Dieter Wintermann . In: Yearbook of state palaces, castles and gardens in Saxony , Dresden, 9, 2001 (2003), pp. 163–166.
  • Andreas Dietrich: In memoriam Klaus-Dieter Wintermann . In: Between Tradition and Modernity , Leipzig: Leipziger Universitats-Verlag, 2004, pp. 15–17.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the obituary written by Christine Klecker, the year of the doctorate is given as 1987, according to the DNB it was 1988.
personal data
SURNAME Wintermann, Klaus-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German museologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Rohrborn
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2001